GEECT

בית הספר סם שפיגל לקולנוע וטלוויזיה

Sam Spiegel Film and Television School

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  • Basic Facts
  • Mission & Strategy
  • Degree Areas
  • Key Teaching Staff
  • Successful Graduates

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    1989

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    1992

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    n/a

  • Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:

    n/a

  • Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):

    Dana Blankstein Cohen

  • Address:

    3 Menorah Street Jerusalem, 9456303 Israel

  • Country:

    Israel

  • Website:

    https://www.eng.jsfs.co.il/

  • Points of Contact

    CILECT Contact Person:
    Director: Dana Blankstein Cohen
    Email:
    dana@jsfs.co.il
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Associate Director: Shir Shoshani
    Email:
    shirshoshani@jsfs.co.il
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Head of Script Writing Track: Tzvika Kertzner
    Email:
    tzvika@jsfs.co.il
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Director of International Relations & Distribution Cara Saposnik
    Telephone:
    +972 2 67 31 950
    Email:
    cara@jsfs.co.il
    Email:
    mail@jsfs.co.il

Mission & Strategy

The answers to the following questions, which students develop throughout their studies, serve to cultivate their personal voice through projects and films they create. Once the studies have ended, these questions remain at the core of our graduates’ being as filmmakers.

Is the film you wish to make relevant?
Is it original?
Has its story been told?
Are you the only one who can tell the story?
Do you have an obligation to tell it?
Is it relevant to your own inner world and to your personal taste?
Is it relevant to your audience?
To which audience?
With what artistic means will you reach this audience?
Will its meaning traverse countries and cultures?

Degree Areas

Film & Television

  • Degree Awarded

    BA

  • Training Type

    Full-Time

Tuition Fees

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Admission Requirements

  • Portfolio & Interview

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  • Agreements with Foreign Governments

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  • High Institution Matriculation

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  • Recognized Prior Expertise

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  • Talent Entrance Exams

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Language of Studies

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Screenwriting

  • Degree Awarded

    Diploma

  • Training Type

    Full-Time

Tuition Fees

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Number of Students

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Admission Requirements

  • Portfolio & Interview

    No information

  • Agreements with Foreign Governments

    No information

  • High Institution Matriculation

    No information

  • Recognized Prior Expertise

    No information

  • Talent Entrance Exams

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Language of Studies

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Budget Parameters

  • Total Amount from School`s Budget Allocated to Production Annually

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Key Teaching Staff

Ishai Adar

Field of Teaching: Sound Design
Website Reference: https://www.ishaiadar.com
Major Achievements:

Founding member of the band “Nos’ei Hamigbaat”
Composed scores for the films:
Year Zero (2004)
Beaufort (2007)
Bethlehem (2013)
Princess (2014)

Orit Azoulay

Field of Teaching: Casting and auditioning
Major Achievements:

Casting Director for over 19 Israeli films.
Won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Casting, which she created, for her work on the films:
The World is Funny (2012)
Zero Motivation (2014)

Yair Lev

Field of Teaching: Documentary Filmmaking
Major Achievements:

Writer and Director.
Among his films:
Hugo 2 (2008)
Hanadon: Uri Avneri (Spirit of Freedom award for best documentary, 2002 Jerusalem Film Festival)
Yakantalisa (1996)
Hugo (1990)
Chorim Bayadayim (1987)

He is also Head of Studies at The Greenhouse Development Program for Documentary Filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa.

Renen Schorr

Field of Teaching: Founding Director of the school
Major Achievements:

Director, producer, screenwriter, script editor and teacher.
President of GEECT in 2000-2004.
One of the initiators and founders of the Israeli Film Fund in 1979, initiated the founding of the New Israeli Fund in 1993, the founding of the Jerusalem Film Fund (2008), the Holon and Herzliya Cinematheques (2008) and the Jerusalem International Film Lab (2011).
Director of Late Summer Blues (1987) and The Loners (2009).
Schorr edited many scripts, among them Broken Wings (2003, Nir Bergman).
Curator and producer of the tribute film Footsteps in Jerusalem (2013).

Akiva Tevet

Field of Teaching: Deputy Director and Head of Productions
Major Achievements:

Director and producer. Graduate of Cinema Studies at the Tel Aviv University.
Certified in business management by Tel Aviv University in the track for administrating cultural and artistic institutions.
Between 1992-2005 acted as director for the cinema studies department at the Camera Obscura School of the Arts.
Directed Atalia (1986) and Love in the First Degree (1997).

Elinor Kowarsky

Field of Teaching: Head of Production Studies
Major Achievements:

Creator and producer of documentary films. Graduate of the Tel Aviv University in Philosophy and Art Studies. In 2002 became a partner in Eden Productions, founded in 1989 by Edna Kowarsky.

Specializes in producing documentaries dealing in social, political, and historical subjects. For more than two years she has acted as an artistic consultant to the documentary department in Reshet Broadcasting.

Among her works:
No. 17 (2003)
A Hebrew Lesson (2006)
Ha’agada Al Nicolai Ve’chok Ha’shvut (2008)
Motarot (2011)
IDF: The Musical (2004)
Checkpoint (2003)
Nine Stars Hotel (2006)
Kirvat Dam (2010)
Women/Pioneers (2013)
Precious Life (2010)
Hitler’s Children (2011)
Baderech Habayta (2009)

Tzvika Kertzner

Field of Teaching: Head of Screenwriting Studies
Major Achievements:

Screenwriter and script editor. Graduate of Film Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Among his works in film:
The Last Suspect (2005)
Ricochets (1986)
Ha-Me’ahev (1985)
Atalia (1984)

Among his works in television:
Meorav Yerushalmi (2009)
Katav Plili (2004)
Tipul Nimratz (2002)
HaIsha HaAcheret (1999-2000)
Tzahal 1 (1997-98)

Successful Graduates

Nir Bergman

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Saving Neta (2016)
Yona (2014)
Hadikduk HaPnimi (2010)
Migdalim Ba’avir (2008)
BeTipul (2005)
Meorav Yerushalmi (2003)
Knafayim Shvurot (2002)
Sussei Yam (1998)

Talya Lavie

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Mi Natan Lach Rishayon? (2014)
Zero Motivation (2014)
Hayelet Bodeda (2006)
Shibolet Bakafe (2004)

Nadav Lapid

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Lama? (2015)
Haganenet (2014)
Footsteps in Jerusalem (2013)
Ha-shoter (2011)
Ha-Chavera Shell Emile (2006)
Kvish (2005)

Rama Burshtein

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Lemale et ha’halal (2012)

David Ofek

Field of Studies: Director
Major Achievements:

Footsteps in Jerusalem (2013)
Handa Handa 4 (2013)
In Between (2013)
30 Shakh LeSha’a (2012)
Ha’agada Al Nicolai Ve’chok Ha’shvut (2008)
Screenz (2007)
Melanoma Ahuvati (2006)
No. 17 (2003)
Ha-Mangalistim (2003)
Take Away (2001)
Hamisha Sipurey Ahava (1999)
Fahma-Dust (1997)
Bat Yam – New York (1995-1997)
Bayit (1995)

Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Shilton Ha Chok (2011)
Massa’ot James Be’eretz Hakodesh (2003)
The Inner Tour (2001)
Martin (1999)
Rak B’Mikrim Bodedim (1996)

Tom Shoval

Field of Studies: Writer/Director
Major Achievements:

Youth (2013)
Aya (2012)
I Will Drink My Tears (2011)
Petach Tikva (2007)
Ha-Lev Haraev (2005)

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